Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Rupert Murdoch has built and partially dismantled an empire that has serious political heft

as well as media dominance. We examine how the breakup of his businesses has gone and

ask how they're likely to be run when his heirs take over. And a look at a pioneering

fitness influencer who flagged his exercise regimen in publications, opened a string

of gyms, put his name to supplements, and used technology to get his likeness everywhere,

more than a century ago.

And first, the earthquake that shook Japan's northeastern coast at 246 pm on March 11,

2011 triggered a tsunami. Waves as high as 40 meters crashed along 500 kilometers of

coastline. It killed around 20,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 homes.

The first thing that you realize is you are riding into areas that are largely deserted.

You're a sea of field, but then you see the remains of buildings on the field and you

see cars lodged in trees. At the time, Kenneth Kukie, now a senior editor at the Economist,

was our Japan correspondent. We stopped, we were just perplexed why someone would have

built a house and what would look like open plains until we realized that we weren't actually

in a city at all. We were literally in a rice field. And the wave had transported all

the debris of the city, four kilometers, five kilometers, up the valley. You saw an image

of the like that you hadn't seen since basically, sadly, the bombings of Hiroshima. And that's

actually one of the reasons why 311 left such a big imprint on the Japanese psyche because

an entire generation had grown up on those devastating images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And here was the modern equivalent of it.

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